The Peruvian justice decided to investigate Fujimori as the perpetrator of the crime against life, body and health, serious injuries, followed by death.
The Peruvian judge Rafael Martínez decided this Saturday, after almost three months of a marathon hearing, to open a criminal proceeding against former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) for the case of forced sterilizations committed during his mandate to more than 1,300 women, in mostly poor and indigenous.
In the fifteenth session of the hearing to read the resolution, which began on September 14, the head of the Transitional Criminal Court Supraprovincial Liquidator of the National Superior Court finally revealed his ruling and thus put an end to the uncertainty of the victims, who have been for 25 years waiting for Justice.
Martínez decided to investigate Fujimori and his former Health Ministers Eduardo Yong Motta, Marino Costa Bauer and Alejandro Aguinaga, who is currently a congressman of the Fujimorista Popular Force party, as mediate authors (with control of the fact) of the crime against life, the body and health, serious injuries, followed by death, in a context of serious violation of human rights.
In order for the criminal process against Fujimori to begin, however, Chile’s Supreme Court of Justice must first accept the expansion of the extradition charges approved in 2005, after the former president was detained in the neighboring country.
Thus, while Chile is expected to rule on the extradition request, which the Prosecutor’s Office has already announced that it will present, the judge ordered the suspension of the process in the exclusive case of Fujimori and gave a period of 120 days for the proceedings of the case.
“Milestone on the road to justice”
In this Saturday’s session, Martínez read the more than 1,300 names of the women who underwent tubal ligation against their will, who celebrated through social networks “this first great milestone on the path of justice for the victims. “
In previous hearings, the magistrate considered that the forced sterilizations were responsible for the high officials involved and reiterated that, as a result of these events, human rights were violated in a health strategy that caused at least five deaths, including Mamérita’s. Mestanza, the most emblematic face of the case.
According to the tax complaint, Fujimori would be ultimately responsible for promoting sterilizations as a systematic method of reducing poverty by reducing the birth rate.
The 83-year-old ex-president is already serving a 25-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity as the mediator of the murder of 25 people in the Barrios Altos (1991) and La Cantuta (1992) massacres, perpetrated by the group. undercover military Hill.
More than 2000 complaints
Forced sterilizations occurred during the implementation of the Reproductive Health and Family Planning Program 1996-2000, where voluntary surgical contraception (VCA), as tubal ligation and vasectomies were called, was significantly increased.
During that period, about 300,000 people were sterilized, including more than 272,000 women and about 22,000 men, according to the Ministry of Health reports collected by the Ombudsman’s Office, but at present it is still unknown how many of them were forced.
For now, there are just over 8,000 victims registered in the Registry of Victims of Forced Sterilizations (Reviesfo), opened by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights since 2016.
Just over 2,000 are those who have formally denounced having been forcibly sterilized, of which 1,307 ended up with serious injuries, and of these five died as a result of the aftermath of the intervention.
The complainants, mostly poor Andean, indigenous and Quechua-speaking women, claim to have been subjected to tubal ligation without their consent, under threats and coercion, or directly without their being aware of the intervention after having requested another. medical procedure. (I)
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